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Biggles Buries the Hatchet – Captain W.E. Johns – First Edition 1958

Sought after Biggles first edition one that is hard to come by. Published by Brokhampton Press in 1958. Octavo, blue boards, 184 pages plus catalogue with the usual ticks. Has the Brock Books image lower spine and number “52” as required of the first. Dust jacket chipped and worn through front end back flap part missing. Full page coloured illustration from the omnipresent Leslie Stead

Erich von Stalhein escapes from prison behind the Iron Curtain. An event which brings Biggles into conflicts with his arch enemy.

Biggles First but not the first encounter with von Stalein!

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$40.00

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Biggles and The Poor Rich Boy – Captain W.E. Johns – First Edition 1961

The true first edition not the orange board Hampton copy often disguised as a first. This published by Brockhampton Press in 1961.

Octavo, brown boards, dust jacket with “Brock Books” at base of spine and numbering system “58” above. 182 pages, plus catalogue [annotated in hand], coloured frontispiece, the odd line illustration by the usual Leslie Stead. A little age, really very good with a great example of the dust jacket.

The entire British police force cannot find twelve-year-old Carlo Salvatore who has been kidnapped. Biggles and his chums come to the rescue – a trip to Scotland is required.

Scarce Biggles First in good condition and in Scotland

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$50.00

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Biggles of the Special Air Police – Captain W.E. Johns

Published by Dean & Son, no date but early 1960’s. Octavo, 183 pages. Quite page toned internally otherwise clean. Dust jacket, edge wear but quite complete.

A Biggles collection including some of the earlier ones – our favourites include “the Blue Devil”, “the Case of the Too Successful Company” and “the White Fokker”. What is a “Balloonatic?”

Biggles a mixed bag of adventure

$20.00

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Biggles in Australia – Captain W.E. Johns

Biggles and his Air police foil a communist plot in OZ. Where is he now when we need him? A little foxed but not Biggles!

Published by Hodder and Stoughton, second impression 1956 a year after the first. Octavo, 188 pages, a few marks and a pretty good dust jacket.

Scarce and our favourite Biggles

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$50.00

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Billabong Riders – Mary Grant Bruce – 1952

This is the first UK edition published in 1952, having been published in Australia in 1942.

An absolutely clean copy with a perfect dust jacket … given the time period of over 70 year something special .. would make great gift.

Octavo, 192 pages, frontispiece like the jacket cover. We have gushed about the quality, put up with a previous owners book label at the front ends.

This is all about the riders of Billabong the authors special place that defines real Australia to many … full of character and characters. Understand it before tall buildings take over.

One for the bush or the curious city dweller.

$35.00

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Mother Goose and Her Friends – Adventures in the Old Woman’s Shoe – Maude Radford Warren and Eve Davenport – illustrated by Charles Federer

Absurdly wonderful book of tales, published by Hodder & Stoughton, first English edition 1923. Large thick octavo, 309 pages, with ten tipped in coloured plates, fancy end papers, coloured plate pasted to front board. A trifle age – really a super copy, by any standards very good for a book now over a century old.

Traditional children’s stories with no prejudice and positive messages and lots of fun. Old King Cole was a merry old soul and Simple Simon’s pieman had a very large pie on his head.

Stories for children that pass the test of time

$50.00

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Biggles Buries the Hatchet – Captain W.E. Johns – First Edition 1958

Biggles and The Poor Rich Boy – Captain W.E. Johns – First Edition 1961

Biggles of the Special Air Police – Captain W.E. Johns

Biggles in Australia – Captain W.E. Johns

Billabong Riders – Mary Grant Bruce – 1952

Mother Goose and Her Friends – Adventures in the Old Woman’s Shoe – Maude Radford Warren and Eve Davenport – illustrated by Charles Federer

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